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known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime, The beatles recorded 20 singles that reached the top spot on the Billboard charts;their songs, including Yesterday, which spent four weeks in the top spot,have been covered more often than those of any modern band.

According to the Modifiers rule,

"known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime"is a Participial phrase starting with Known (past participle of Know).And we know that If a sentence starts with a Participial Phrase (or infact a VerbED modifier), that particular phrase must logically modify the noun that follows the comma.

My question is ,

Here the phrase "known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime" seems to be modifying the act of recording 20 singles by beatles that reached the topspot. Is this justified ?

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05 Nov 2012, 07:51

known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime, The beatlesrecorded20 singlesthat reached the top spot on the Billboard charts;their songs, including Yesterday, which spent four weeks in the top spot,have been covered more often than those of any modern band.

As you have said, the participial phrase should modify the noun following the phrase and here the noun is "The Beatles" . "The act of recording" is not a noun here. "Record" has been used as a verb(recorded) and not as a gerund (the beatles' recording)
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05 Nov 2012, 08:22

Hi connect the dots,

In the given sentence above , what is known as the one of the greatest musical act ? The 20 singles recorded by the Beatles and not the Beatles themselves. Hence the given sentence is wrongly modifying the " Beatles recorded 20 songs " which is a whole clause in itself. My question is , it should be just modifying the noun Beatles, so isn't the given sentence wrong ?

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01 Feb 2017, 05:07

igloo wrote:

known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime, The beatles recorded 20 singles that reached the top spot on the Billboard charts;their songs, including Yesterday, which spent four weeks in the top spot,have been covered more often than those of any modern band.

According to the Modifiers rule,

"known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime"is a Participial phrase starting with Known (past participle of Know).And we know that If a sentence starts with a Participial Phrase (or infact a VerbED modifier), that particular phrase must logically modify the noun that follows the comma.

My question is ,

Here the phrase "known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime" seems to be modifying the act of recording 20 singles by beatles that reached the topspot. Is this justified ?

Known globally as one of the greatest musical acts of alltime, The beatles recorded 20 singles that reached the top spot on the Billboard charts; their songs, including Yesterday, which spent four weeks in the top spot,have been covered more often than any modern band.

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